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blue m.p beads

Posted by manish khavadiya on April 28, 2011 at 7:44am

these are blue bead necklaces from gypsy of madhya pradesh,India.these beads came to India from Europe in mid 18th century till early 19th century and they travelled through different hands and came to the gypsy because the gypsy are more likely to do barter(exchange only) system.

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